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COMMON HOST
12 -15 March

A weekend gathering situating ancient folk customs such as mumming in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex . 

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(para)site: a discharge of cultural sewage, 2022. Comissioned by Totally Thames Festival and programmed by Deptford X Festival with VSSL studio. Photo by Milo Robinson for Thames Festival Trust

zack mennell

contaminated materials an artist lab exploring the performance of difficult histories

Saturday 14 March, Peckham

In this Artist Lab, zack mennell explores how we can transform items, objects and materials which carry negative associations. Using performance art practices, we’ll look at how we can imbue these ‘contaminated materials’ with new meanings that foster recovery and suggest new relationships. 

In zack’s own work, they have transformed their correspondence with medical institutions and the Department of Work and Pensions. These documents have been cut-up and reorganised, dissolved in the Thames, and recorded and re-recorded onto cassette tapes until the words disappear.

What do these objects do to us and the places we inhabit? How can we shift the power dynamics in these relationships? Can we become object while letting the material become us? At what point does that transformation occur?

How do these relationships to material speak through socio-cultural issues? Can we find ways to make the intense aspects silly and vise versa?

Date & time: Saturday 14 March
Venue: Safehouse 1&2, Peckham, SE15 3SN

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contaminated materials is presented as part of common host, a weekend programme gathering strange archetypes and odd beings. Convened by zack mennell, the gathering situtates ancient folk customs such as mumming in new relation to the post-industrial landscapes of London and Essex.

Drawing in members of zack's artistic community, the programme involves performances, conversation, a workshop and an exhibition. zack will show a new short film, made in collaboration with Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.

Friday 13 - Sunday 15 March 2026
Safehouse 1&2, Peckham, SE15 3SN

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